[geeks] Nothing is safe anymore (smartphone division)

[Phil Stracchino]

On 03/11/2012 07:47 PM, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> So, it turns out that verious smartphone browsers have enough
> vulnerabilities in them that a QR-code-based attack can end up giving the
> attacker various databases from your phone, containing the usual passwords.
[...]
> I use very few password-protected services from my phone, and no important
> ones, and I never _intentionally_ have any browser "remember" my passwords,
> but I can't know what is being cached or otherwise saved behind my back.
> 
> Sometimes I wonder if smartphonery is so smart, after all.

I do not consider my phone a secure device, which is why I have nothing
more confidential on it than my contacts list.


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